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Schedule
Sunday, May 23— 2:30 p.m.
Tisch Rm. 108 |
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Malama Ka `Aina
17 min., 2003, Hawai`i (USA)
Director: Phil Wilson / Producer: Phyllis Paul
Little is known on the outside about Ni`ihau, the westernmost and most Hawaiian
of the major Hawaiian Islands. Perhaps the exclusion of visitors from this
privately owned island is mostly responsible. This film chronicles the challenges
of the Robinson family who bought the island as immigrant Scottish sheepherders
in the mid 19th century and their present-day commitment to keep cultural
and biological change to a minimum. Malama Ka `Aina (To Care For the Land)
shows Keith Robinson's struggle to save endangered plants and animals, such
as the Hawaiian monk seal, but, most important, to preserve the old Hawaiian
culture and traditions of the people of Ni`ihau. Q&A to follow with filmmaker. |
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`A`ala: a Visual Poem about the Living and Dying of a
Community
27 min., 1964, Hawai`i (USA)
Directors: Francis Haar, Ken Bushnell & Steve Bartlett
Sound: Peter Coraggio
This experimental black-and-white film is a bittersweet valentine to Honolulu's
multicultural immigrant ghetto formerly known as `A`ala. Shot entirely during
the tumultuous year of 1964, this nonnarrative film is more a visual poem about
the constituents of a bygone community. It portrays a living ethnic stew of
the people, sights, and sounds that comprised a vital area of old Honolulu
before the site was bulldozed and gave way to a large park that ultimately
became a hangout for drug pushers, drunks, and the homeless. This work is a
meditation on a doomed neighborhood through close-up images that signify inevitable
change and transition. |
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Puamana
38 min., 1991, Hawai`i (USA)
Director: Les Blank
/ Producer: Meleanna Aluli Meyer.
This film was the dream concept of producer Meleanna Meyer,
niece of Irmgard Farden Aluli, one of Hawai'i's best-loved
and prolific composers. Part tribute, part record, part
family album, part concert film, Puamana winds up being
something
more than the sum of its parts. The film brings to the
screen a vibrant sense of the meaning of `ohana and aloha--the
love
that was shared among the thirteen children of Charles
and Annie Farden later blossomed into one of Hawai`i's
greatest
familial music legacies. Puamana, the name of the Farden
family homestead in Lahaina, is also the title of a composition
by
Auntie Irmgard. The memory of how Auntie Irmgard wrote
the song, with sister Emma dancing to it and their father
translating
the fragrance of the flowers and the soft whisper of the
surf into the lyrics, is itself a doorway into the heart
and soul
of Hawaiian music. |
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